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Alois Alzheimer

1864 - 1915

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Alois Alzheimer ( AHLTS-hy-mər, US also AHLTS-, AHLTS-, German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alois Alzheimer is the 30th most popular physician (down from 18th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Germany (down from 167th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Physician.

Alois Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who first identified Alzheimer's disease in 1906. He published his findings in 1907, and it is now known as Alzheimer's disease.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Alois Alzheimer ranks 30 out of 726. Before him are Cyril of Alexandria, Michael Servetus, Allvar Gullstrand, Al-Zahrawi, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, and John Snow. After him are Christiaan Eijkman, Willem Einthoven, Qa'a, Li Ching-Yuen, Rudolf Virchow, and Camillo Golgi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Alois Alzheimer ranks 7. Before him are Max Weber, Richard Strauss, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilhelm Wien, George Washington Carver, and Camille Claudel. After him are Walther Nernst, Maurice Leblanc, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Hermann Minkowski, Alfred Hermann Fried, and Eleftherios Venizelos. Among people deceased in 1915, Alois Alzheimer ranks 2. Before him is Alexander Scriabin. After him are Paul Ehrlich, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henry Moseley, Porfirio Díaz, Ellen G. White, Jean-Henri Fabre, Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Charles Tupper, and Wilhelm Windelband.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alois Alzheimer ranks 238 out of 7,253. Before him are Emmy Noether (1882), Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Edith Stein (1891), Arnulf of Carinthia (850), Hans Memling (1435), and Otto Diels (1876). After him are Maria Sophie of Bavaria (1841), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744), Eckhart Tolle (1948), and Magda Goebbels (1901).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Alois Alzheimer ranks 4. Before him are Josef Mengele (1911), Robert Koch (1843), and Georgius Agricola (1494). After him are Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).

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